The consumer court found the Railways guilty for issuing a wrongly dated ticket and slapped a penalty of Rs 10,000 on them for causing mental harassment to Shukla. An additional Rs 3000 was also awarded as compensation to the retired professor.

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New Delhi: A Consumer court in Saharanpur awarded a compensation of Rs 13,000 to a 73-year-old man named Vishnu Kant Shukla who was evicted from the train because his ticket was wrongly dated for 3013. Shukla who is a retired professor boarded Himgiri Express to travel from Saharanpur to Jaunpur on November 19, 2013. When the train ticket examiner (TTE) checked his ticket and found that the ticket was dated for 3013, he got Shukla evicted from the train at Moradabad station.

In a statement to ToI Shukla said, "I retired as head of the Hindi department from JV Jain Degree College in Saharanpur. In short, I am not a person who would travel by train with a fake ticket and here was a TTE who humiliated me in front of everyone, demanded that I pay a penalty of Rs 800, and even got me evicted from the train. It was an important journey as I had to visit my friend whose wife had expired.”

Shukla filed a case against the Railways in a consumer court in Saharanpur. The consumer court found the Railways guilty for issuing a wrongly dated ticket and slapped a penalty of Rs 10,000 as well on them for causing mental harassment to Shukla. An additional Rs 3000 was also awarded as compensation to the retired professor.

The court observed that "To de-board, a person of an advanced age in the middle of a journey causes a great amount of physical strain and mental harassment to him. If the passenger did not check his ticket at the counter, this does not absolve the Railways of its responsibility. This clearly shows that there were flaws in services provided by the department."

73-year-old man receives Rs 13,000 compensation for a ticket dated for 3013Description: The consumer court found the Railways guilty for issuing a wrongly dated ticket and slapped a penalty of Rs 10,000 on them for causing mental harassment to Shukla. An additional Rs 3000 was also awarded as compensation to the retired professor. Times Now